To the mounds!
Children and parents scaled the storm fencing around the mounds in Washington Sq. Park two weekends ago to protest the Parks Departments failure to include the dilapidated, enigmatic play hills in the parks renovation, to start at summers end. Packing chalk, they wrote, Save The Mounds, We Love Them, on one of the three, 6-foot-tall nubs, and rolled balls and toy cars up and down the hills sides. A Park Enforcement Patrol officer appeared and told the group they would be arrested if they didnt move off the mounds; the parents said they were prepared to get arrested, and held their ground  and their mounds  defiantly for some time until finally being persuaded to leave. The area with the mounds  the last remnants of an adventure playground from the parks last renovation in 1969  is not included in phase one of the parks two-year refurbishment plan. The parents say two years ago, Parks promised they would repair, resurface and reopen the mounds  Downtowns only hills and a favorite toddler winter sledding spot  but now plan to bulldoze them. Parks plans a new adventure-type playground for adolescents at the site.